Frankfurt an der Oder, a town in eastern Germany at the border with Poland. Foreigners are rarely seen in the former communist city about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Berlin, but as in much of eastern Germany, there is deep suspicion toward migrants. 'Far too many migrants'With its tall concrete residential blocks in the centre of town, Frankfurt an der Oder, at the border with Poland, has struggled to shed its ex-communist yoke. 'Structural racism'Hajo Funke, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University, said eastern Germany suffers from a "structural" problem of racism. The former East Germany "was an authoritarian regime that was not very open to diversity and which did not seek to integrate foreigners," he said.

Source: The Local March 26, 2017 11:48 UTC